Credit to Author: Kareem El-Assal| Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 16:56:00 +0000
Cities across Canada are engaged in a heated competition to attract more immigrants. Due to their aging populations and low birth rates, cities need more immigrants to keep their economies strong. At the national level, Canada welcomed more than 341,000 immigrants in 2019 or about 0.9 per cent of its population. Canada is welcoming more […]
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Credit to Author: Paul Blest| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 17:46:30 +0000
At least 138 people deported from the U.S. have been subsequently murdered in El Salvador.
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Credit to Author: Matt Robinson| Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 20:06:49 +0000
Nasrullah Zamani, now 21 and a privately sponsored refugee living in Surrey, recounts the story of his family’s fateful journey and its aftermath from the Vancouver home of his sister Fatemeh.
Read moreCredit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 20:54:19 +0000
With little fanfare, Canada made history at a recent United Nations conference in Geneva by having a refugee as part of its official delegation. While Mustafa Alio’s role as a state delegate had gone largely unnoticed, it marked a historic moment for the international community to – for the first time – have a refugee […]
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Credit to Author: Kim Bolan| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 23:36:12 +0000
Would-be refugee Luis Caceres didn’t tell Canadian authorities he was on a list of the banned FARC, the Colombian revolutionary group
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Credit to Author: Douglas Todd| Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 01:52:16 +0000
Opinion: Iranian asylum seekers in B.C. far surpass the next-largest-source countries for would-be refugees.
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Credit to Author: Gaby Del Valle| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:43:05 +0000
The pause in resettlements may be due to President Trump not having signed off on the refugee ceiling for the new fiscal year.
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Credit to Author: Stephen Snelgrove| Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 01:00:32 +0000
OPINION: Twenty years ago, refugee claimant families who moved from Kinbrace could afford to rent in East Vancouver. In the last two years these families have been moving as far as Port Moody, Richmond, Coquitlam, and Aldergrove.
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Credit to Author: Douglas Todd| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:34:43 +0000
OPINION: The party intends to “lead a national discussion to define the term ‘environmental refugee,’ advocate for its inclusion as a refugee category … and accept an appropriate share of the world’s environmental refugees into Canada.”
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Credit to Author: Peter Tinti| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 19:14:52 +0000
Wealthy countries are making it harder and harder for the world’s most desperate people to seek refuge.
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